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THE. HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

A PAGE FROM 1852 COMES TO LIFE

NEWSPAPER FOUND IN THE LEG OF A VICTORIAN TABLE

A WORKMAN repairs an old table in 1936 and a longforgotten

day in 1852 springs to life.

The table was a wedding prescat to Mrs. Peasey, now at 96 years of age the oldest woman inhabitant of Ealing, who has just been taken to a nursing home.

Her grandson began to overhaul her property and found that this Victorian table was rickety on its legs.

He started to repair it and inside one of the legs he found a copy of a newspaper for Sunday, November 28, 1852, neatly wrapped and perfectly preserved. In fine writing on the margin were the words, "Made by Adam Russell, 6, Caledonia-street, Thames Bank Pier, Pimlico, London. This is intended to be a treat to those who find it first."

The good Mr. Russell, with his; obvious sense of historical values, may have intended his newspaper to remain hidden for several centuries. so that it might eventually be a real historical And.

HOUSE OF BROOMS

But even after some 80 years it Is Indeed a treat.

י

It is a copy of the old "Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper," edited by Doug- las Jerrold and priced at 3d. It is a newspaper of the grand old style, with a charming disregard alike for nows value and the remiler's eye-sight.

OUR UNIVERSE DOES

NOT EXPAND

London, Mar, 15. The universe is doubling its sizo every 1,300 million years, Sir Arthur Eddington, British astronomer, estimates." For some years astrononiers, observing the rushing away from the earth of the most distant objects in the heavens have belleved the uni verse to be expanding at this rate, but theory has been silent on this point until Sir Arthur found re- cently it was possible to predict from theory alone the rate

Across its front page are no head-expansion-United Press.

lines or photographs. First place is given to a jovial account of the "House of Brooms," a weekly supper given among themselves by the crossing-sweepers of London, led by a Mr. Stump, the member for Baker- alreet, and surrounded by the sweepers for Downing-street, Charing Cross and Stock Exeliange, and so on.

Second In Importance. comes news from France of the national ballot on the subject of the empire under Louis Napoleon.

There is a story of a grost hurri-}, Jeane at Athens which brought down one of the columns of the Temple of Jupiter Olympus, brief references to the election of General Pierce as President of the U.S.A, and an ne- count of the unfortunate denth several people who tried to ferry across a moat at Walton-on-Thames in In beer float.

FREE TRADE DEBATE

Pages 2 and 3 are devoted to Par- Jamentary debates, which have a familiar ring. The subject they were debating WHA Free Trade, and Palmerston gave it as his opinion that return to the systems of Protection was "physically impossible."

A person for whom the editor had no liking was Mr. Disraeli, and he gave half a column to proving that he had pinginrised some of the more tell- ing passages in his "Venetia" from Macaulay's essay on Byron,

By Its side was a report of "The Melancholy Death of a Barman" who was knocked on the head by a trouble- some customer and, in spite of "every assistance_that_niedical_skill_ could suggest, delirious tremens terminated the unfortunate man's sufferings on Saturday night. He was universally respected in the neighbourhood."

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DUKE OF WELLINGTON

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Suddenly one discovers from á para- graph tucked away in one corner of an inside page that the Duke Wellington's body was lying-in-state two Chelsea Hospital and that people had died in the crowd that thronged there. An astute advertiser had taken advantage of this to n nounce that those who could not gain admission to the hospital "except by risking their liven" "might see

the whole thing in 20 beautiful cos moramic views in a building in the Strand for the sum of 6d.

Thin particular newspaper was far more interested in the curious case of Eliza Hayes, who had given birth to.. n child in a barn at Dartford, with nobody to aid her, and had been re- fused admission to the Dartford Union, and had walked all the way to Southwark on the same day carrying the child to be admitted to the poor- house there.

THEATRES

There was a big jewel robbery in Gloucestershire, the suspected murder of an old man at Exeter, and a meet- ing held in Marylebone to form the first free public library in London "or the industrious classes".

Most of all however, one liked the advertisements, particularly the thea trical advertisements. Phelps himacif was actor managing. Shakespearean Reason at the Royal Sadler's Wells Theatre. Most of the other theatres Beamed to be showing simultaneous productions of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which was the rage of the day,

STORMS FOLLOW FLOODS

of

ADD TO DEATH LIST IN AMERICA

ANTI-PLAGUE PRECAUTIONS

New York, Mar. 24. While tornadoes and storms in the Mississippi Valley and the Southern and Eastern States have raised the week's death-roll from the elements to 177, the Ohio River has quietened down somewhat

However, the floods continue to in- undate the Howlands down stream from Cincinnati without reaching the business centres of the towns.

Some of the largest industries at Hartford, Connecticut, have reopeų- ed. Hundreds of workers were in-. ocalnted before they were allowed to enter the food-swept buildings, while in New England inoculations have been performed by the thousand.-- Reuter

NAVAL PARLEY-

CONCLUSION

PROCEEDINGS TO BE BROADCAST

London, Mar. 24. In the B.B.C. Empire transmissions, an observer will describe the scenes at the final plenary session of the London Naval Conference at St. James Palace at 1.10 p.m. (GM.T)) on March 25,

Speeches by Mfr. Anthony Eden and Lord Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty, will be heard. Recordings of the speeches by Dominions dele- gates will later be broadcast in select- ed transmissions. British Wireless.

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The Queen's Theatre had "another; hit"a curious phrase to find in 1862 The Rate of the Soine". At the Grand National Standard Theatre there was "an entirely now entitled A Vision of the Future or Grace Gray the Servant Girl, after which a laughable farce No, No, No,' the whole to be concluded with the drama of "The Forst Child,' supported by the whole company."

"Dress boxes cost is. 6d., boxes 1s. and the gallery Bd.

At the Casino de Venise, in High Holborn, "the largest, most elegant and beat ballroom in London, Mr. W. M. Packar's band," it was..... an- nounced, "will perform Slr II. R. Bishop's now song 'Mourn for the Mighty Wellington" and a variety of the most popular compositions of the

day

This musical treat, including don cing, cost 10.-.

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MARCH

25, 1936.

NEW FINDS AT·

LUXOR

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From Luxor, where many valuable discoveries have previously mado it is announced that an Ameri can expedition has found two tombs whose opening is expected with great interest. Picture shows temple ruin at Luxor.

Portugal Develops Mineral Wealth

GOLD RUSH GROWS

Lisbon, Mar. 20.

Portugal is to become a gold- producing country again. It was so in the days of Roman occupa- tion. Now research work into gold mining prospects has been reported as highly successful.

The Government recently grant- ed a concession to the Portuguese Society for Prospecting and Ex- ploration of Mines, in the regions of Alvá and the river Mondego, and also in the river Tague, from Abramtes in the direction of Lisbon.

Gold is reported to be abundant at Arganil and in other neighbour- ing districts.

The newspaper Diario de Lisbon commented that "In the near future there will be enough nation- | al gold for the needs of the coun- try. The state will not have to apply to foreign markets, as it can have as much gold as it wants at a fixed price, below the average work's quotation, as soon, ng, the proposed explorations' on a large Reale are fully realized.**

Promier Impressed

This news 80 impressed the -Premier that he went to the Vouga Valley, as the district is called, to see for himself. The concession- nirea ninde some, technical tests in his presence' which produced a most favourable Impression on the Premier. Further official

COIL- cessions of land were then granted for prospecting purposes,

Other territories in the area of Sarzedo and St. Fedro, and else- where, in which the existence of gold la claimed, are to be expro- printed. There is great excite- ment among the populations of several districts where research work in being made.

Near Arganil some field-workers found a nugget of pure gold weigh-i ing one kilogram 250 grams, which they sold to jewellers nt Lisbon and Oporto,

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The forthcoming wedding is nounced of Mr. William O'Connor, clark, of Messrs. Howart and Co., and realding at 10 Wing Hing Street, top floor, and Miss Mario Leonard, living at Tin Hau Temple Road, top floor.

A Dinner Dance will be held at Ropulao Bay Hotel on Wednesday, March 25, at 8.30 pm.

The Empress of Canada is due here from Shanghal at 7 a.m. on Friday,

work

Senhor Cardoso Pinto declares that the geological constitution of the region is similar to that of California. There are other large mineral deposits in diferent parts of Portugal, chiefly tin, wolfram and radium in the north, and these are largely exported. The most important tin mines at Gala, near Guarda, are exploited by a North American company. -

·ZOOLOGIST PASSES -:-)

Munich, March 24. The death han occurred of Professor Ludwig Doederlein, the famous logist,Reuter.

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